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Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, `We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.`"
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Service is Duty, Not Debt
Multiple commentators emphasize that this verse defines our service to God as a duty, not a transaction. Even if we were to perfectly fulfill every command, we would only be doing what is required of us as servants. This means we cannot place God in our debt or earn salvation through our actions. As Albert Barnes notes, any reward we receive is a matter of God's 'unmerited favor,' not something we have deserved.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Are unprofitable servants. We have conferred no favor. We have merited nothing. We have not benefited God or laid him under o…
Unprofitable (αχρειο). The Syriac Sinaitic omits "unprofitable." The word is common in Greek literature, but in the N.T. only here…
19th Century
Anglican
Say, We are unprofitable servants. There is something very suggestive in the use of the same word that we encounter in th…
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Baptist
So likewise you, when you shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which …
Luke here presents Jesus’ teaching about the ideal of servanthood. The world’s idea of success is to lord it over others; Jesus’ way is the reverse…
16th Century
Protestant
We have done what we were bound to do. That is, “we have brought nothing of our own, but have only done what we were bound by the law to d…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
So likewise you This is the accommodation and application of the parable to the disciples of Christ, who whether ministers or …
It is no reduction of the guilt of those by whom an offense comes, nor will the fact that offenses will come lessen their punishment.
Faith …
